Motivational Quotes

Science

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Science

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Collingwood, Robin G.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Ehrlich, Paul

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Adams, Mike

A bad conscience has a very good memory

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Freud, Sigmund

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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Myles, Allanah

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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Valery, Paul

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Mead, Margaret

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

Mencken, H. L.

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Lee, Harper

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Connolly, Cyril

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Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

Russell, Bertrand

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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Gill, Eric

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Eliot, George

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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Einstein, Albert

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Fromm, Erich

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Rostand, Jean

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Hubbard, Ruth

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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Bronowski, Jacob